Russia foreign minister says US nuclear arms treaty imminent
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday that nuclear arms reduction negotiations with the US are likely to resume in early February and will soon result in a landmark nuclear arms reduction treaty. The treaty...
US Senate votes to approve nuclear cooperation agreement with India
The US Senate voted Wednesday to approve legislation establishing a cooperative nuclear energy agreement with India. The bill, entitled the "United States-India Nuclear Cooperation Approval and Nonproliferation Enhancement Act," was approved by a vote of...
Howard Berman (D-CA), Chairman of the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee , released a letter obtained by JURIST on Thursday in which he urged the Bush administration to postpone an international nuclear trade deal with India...
Nuclear nonproliferation treaty conference ends without agreement
A two-week UN conference to toughen the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons failed to reach any agreement Friday, as the United States and Iran traded accusations of bad faith. The US and its allies...
International panel drafting nuclear treaty to counter US proposal
The International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM) is developing a global treaty banning the further production of nuclear materials such as weapons-grade uranium and plutonium. The IPFM, which is comprised of independent arms control experts from 15...
The UN Security Council voted 15-0 Saturday to impose its first sanctions on Iran for continuing to enrich uranium past an August 31 deadline imposed by Security Council Resolution 1696 ....
President George W. Bush signed two bills into law Friday separately imposing sanctions on North Korea and Sudan in light of the former's nuclear test earlier this week and reports of continued atrocities in Sudan's Darfur region...
The Security Council on Iran: Fiddling While the Middle East Burns?
JURIST Guest Columnist Daniel Joyner of the University of Warwick School of Law in the United Kingdom says that the timing of the UN Security Council's passage of a Chapter VII resolution on Iran in the midst of an escalating...
Bush presses immigration compromise as House holds hearing at border station
President Bush repeated earlier calls for a compromise immigration reform bill that would satisfy the demands of both House and Senate leaders during a press conference in Chicago Friday. After promoting the use...
Japan offers new Security Council resolution on North Korea missile launches
Japan circulated a new UN Security Council draft resolution on Friday, tougher than a previous draft resolution circulated earlier this week , that would direct states to take whatever steps necessary to prevent North Korea...
